Archives for November, 2007

Today, 30,000 scientists descended upon San Diego for Neuroscience 2007, the Society for Neuroscience’s annual scientific meeting. With more than 16,000 presentations over just five days, the conference is more than any one reporter could possibly cover. But I’m going to do my best, posting daily wrap-ups here and highlighting some of the most interesting,…

The annual Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference kicks off today in San Diego. Seed associate editor Emily Anthes, one of SfN’s 30,000 attendees, has graciously offered to do live blogging on Page 3.14 this weekend direct from the conference. The Dalai Lama won’t be there this year. But she’ll have her pick of entertainment—from keynote…

Yesterday was the last day to take part in the DonorsChoose challenge. Now the final tallies are ready, and we are super, super proud: ScienceBlogs readers donated $54,335 for 155 classroom projects. With $15,000 in matching funds from Seed Media group, that means our readers put $69,335 toward U.S. science literacy. WooT! Janet Stemwedel, ScienceBlogs…